Lumber Strike Settlement Seen Just Around the Corner
Weather
FORECAST: Continued cloud v
with rain tonight and Wednes
day. Snow In mountains. Little
chance in temperature.
Temp.
Hlfheit TMterday ,5g
Lowest this morning ...... .45
Prec.
To 5 a, m. today ,,,,,, ,
Fortieth Year
Where Warfare Continues
MlttS
Nationahu Red
f'oihei tonfmue
'n rieifiin arM
u 5 Moik. 1 !
-
T.'rfee National,,! f ' l' ,tkIJ jf
coumns advance vF '' ''' jjJ a'
on Communiitl A-V-i if -.4 s,
PipingSuichungJS".'.:rVl I
M ,SlC KOREA j JAPAN
CHINA) C J
TO.. -
Mcme Telpphoto)
Map shows where forces of Chiang Kai-Shek and the Chinese Com
munists engage in wild tangle of warfare In northern China and Man
churia, where U. S. Marines are reported involved in fighting on Peiping
Chingwangtao railroad. It is at Chingwangtao that American ships re
cently landed Chiang's soldiers, preparing for showdown with Chlnes
Reds.
Yanks Wounded in China War
Is Declaration of Commies
Chungking, Nov. 27 4U.R)
Chinese communists today charg
ed that Generalissimo Chiang
Kai Shek's government planned
to maintain an army of 4,500,
000 men and renewed assertions
that U. S. troops had been
wounded in a battle of China's
civil war. ...... .t ..
Chungking, Not. 27 (U.R)
An authoritative diplomatic
source said today that Moscow
and Chungking had reached
an agreement which will per
mit Nationalist troops to be
flown into Mukden and Chang
chun and under which Kuom
intang officials may return to
Manchuria at once.
A communist press release
issued here said an "undeter
mined" number of American
personnel attached to national
ist battalions had been wounded
during the battle of Yi Yuan
Kow some 10 days ago. Yi Yuan
Kow is north of China's great
wall, about 30 miles northwest
of Shanhaikwan.
At the same time the com-r-munists
asserted that the central
military government budget for
next year amounted to $200.
000.000,000 and that steamers of
the Minseng Steamship Co., larg
est concern operating on rivers
of interior China, had been seiz
ed for military purposes. Min
seng owns approximately 90
steamers.
The newspaper Takungpao
said Marshal Rodion Malinov
sky, soviet far eastern command
er, had offered to delay the
withdrawal of Rusisan troops
from Manchuria until Jan. 1.
Malinovsky was said to have of
fered assistance to airborne na
tionalist troops to be brought to
Mukden and Changchun. The
newspaper also reported that all
communist troops had disappear
ed from the latter city, and
AT
300 FOOT LEVEL
First Creek, Wash., Nov. 27
(U P.) Deep sea divers today told
state patrolmen they thought a
submerged school bus in Lake
Chelan had been located at the
300 foot level, too deep for
them to go in search of the 14
persons believed trapped inside.
A second body was recovered
when searching was renewed
today, that of Ronnie Avers. 13.
The lad had broke out of the
careening bus as it tippled from
a snow covered highway into j
the lake yesterday.
The body of 16-year-old Hen
rv Davis was found last night
by divers as frantic parents and
relatives waited on the snow
covered rocky shore. Six others
survived the ordeal of being
pitched into the frigid water but
Bus Driver Jack Randall, 26,
and 13 students were believed
s'.ul i Ui jclivvv bus.
M
United Prut
China ktdi
eltimt in
Menchurh
Noy UndeiiKretory
Gofei in Tune-too
OS danger of U S
mrojyement prowl
Chang Kai-Ngau, chairman of
Chaing's economic mission to
Manchuria, said a large number
of government officials were
preparing to leave for Man
churia very soon.
Other reports, however, said
that Malinovsky had offered to
assist Chungking in a peaceful
occupation of all zones in Man
churia still under Russian occu
pation. The offer, however, did
not include areas now under
communist domination, these re
ports said.
TRANSPORT PLANE
Florence, Ore., Nov. 27 (U.R)
Six men, members of the crew
of an army transport plane that
crashed into the sea 16 miles off
the Oregon coast near here, were
still missing today as Coast
Guard vessels combed coastal
waters for sight of survivors.
Last radio contact with the
plane, a twin-engined C-45 en
route on a routine flight from
Sedalia, Mo., to McChord Field
near Tacoma, by way of Oak
land, Cal., was made at 3:15 p.
m. yesterday. Plane crewmen
reported their gasoline was al
most gone and that they were go
ing to bail out.
Besause of bad weather condi
tions, no landing could be made
at McChord Field, so the pilot
was ordered to fly to the army
air base at Pendleton, where
skies were clear.
Authorities said they believed
the plane's equipment became
faulty as no reason could be seen
why the craft headed back down
the Oregon coast.
Ashland Chamber
Names Secretary
Ashland, Nov. 27 Robert L.
Mullin, formerly a resident of
Gold Hill, has been named as
secretary of the Ashland Cham
ber of Commerce, replacing Mrs.
Marchial Stansbury, who has
been temporarily filling the va
cancy. Mullin was recently dis
charged after three and a half
years in the navy.
He and his wife, the former
Irene Steadman, are residing at
the home of her parents in Phoe
nix until a permanent residence
here can be obtained.
Father Kills
3 Children, Self
Ada. Okla.. Nov. 27 U.R
Robert W. Pierre. 40. took his
thrrr small children for a Sun
day automobile ride, shot them
to death one by one, then turn
ed the gun on himself, police
said today.
Mrs. Pierce, distraught over
the tragedy, said her husband
had been a railroad dispatcher
until last week when illness had
forced him to resign. She said
he had not appeared disconsol
ate, however,
EDFORP
Full Leased Wire
MEDFORD,
Hurley Resigns as Ambassador to China;
Says US Foreign Policy Being Sabotaged
TAKES HARD RAP
AT
Being Sucked Into Power
Block On Side of Colonial
Imperialism Is Declaration
Washington. Nov. 27 (U.R)
Gen. George C. Marshall, who
retired last week as army
chief of staff, will replace Am
bassador Patrick J. Hurley in
China, the While House an
nounced today.
Washington, Nov. 27 (U.R)
Patrick J. Hurley resigned to
day as U. S. ambassador to
China with a charge that pro
fessional diplomats in the state
department are sabotaging the
basic principles of American
foreign policy.
Hurley said in a blistering
critique- of the U. S. foreign
service that "in diplomacy today
we are permitting ourselves to
be sucked into a power bloc on
tho side of colonial imperialism
against communist imperialism.
Third War Looms
"There is a third world war
in the making," Hurley said.
"The astonishing feature of
our foreign policy is the wide
discrepancy between our an
nounced policies and our con
duct of International relations,'
he said.
"For instance, we began the
war with the principles ot the
Atlantic Charter and democracy
as our goal. Our associates in
the war at that time gave elo
quent lip service to the princi
ples of democracy.
"We finished the war in the
far east' furnishing lend-lease
supplies and using all our repu
tation to undermine democracy
and bolster imperialism and
communism."
Hurley said that in the "high
er echelon of our policy-making
officials" American foreign
policy is nearly always clearly
defined.
Career Men Hit
But he said, "it is no secret
that the American policy in
China did not have the" support
of all the career men in the state
department."
"The professional foreign
service men sided with the
Chinese communist armed party
and the imperialist bloc of na
tions whose policy it was to
keep China divided against her
self," he said.
He said the professional dip
lomats also advised the Chinese
communists not to accept uni
fication with the Chinese na
tional army unless the com
munists were given control.
"Backed Into War"
Hurley said the weakness of
American foreign policy "has
backed us into two world wars."
"There is a third world war
in the making," he said. "In
diplomacy today we are per
mitting ourselves to be sucked
into a power bloc on tue side
of colonial imperialism against
communist imperialism. I am
opposed to both. I still favor
democracy and free enterprise."
He said this country "won
both wars" but failed in both in
stances "to establish the prin
ciples for which we were fight
ing" because our foreign policy
officials have always been divid
ed against themselves.
"Consequently we have al
ways been a prey to the na
tions that give lip service to our
ic'eals and principles in order
to obtain our material support."
The answer, Hurley said, lies
in two directions. First, he said,
the "secrecy which has shroud
ed the actions of the state de
partment" must be eliminated
in order to give the American
people correct basic information
on which to form judgments.
Secondly, there must be "a
complete reorganization of our
policy making machinery be
ginning at the lower official
levels" to coordinate the na
tion's economic and diplomatic
policies and give "loyal and in
telligcnt implementation" to the
nation's international po icy as
laid down, by its top leaders. ,
,N, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1945.
Tried Peace Move
(Acme Telcphoto)
Joseph Clark Grew, last U. S. am
bassador to Japan, testifies at Pearl
Harbor inquiry. Washington, D. C
that Japan broke off diplomatic re
lations with U. S. at time he was try
ing to deliver last-minute appeal for
peace from late President Roosevelt
L
Washington, Nov. 27 (U.R)
u. S. failure to oppose Japanese
aggression in the critical days
before Pearl Harbor would have
been cowardly, former secretary
of state Cordcll Hull declared
today in a vigorous defense of
his policies.
The white-haired and tremu
lous Hull, 74 and ill, strongly
defended his prewar no-compromise
policy before the house-senate
committee investigating the
Pearl Harbor defeat which
plunged this country into the
conflict.
In two previous appearances
before the committee, Hull had
testified in a faltering, barely
audible voice about his efforts
to preserve peace in the Pacific.
He had denied repeatedly that a
10-point statement of U. S. prin
ciples he gave the Japanese on
Nov. 26. 1941. 'touched the but
ton" that started the war.
Today he was questioned
again about the charge, formally
made last August in an army
board report on the Pearl Har
bor disaster.
Hull vigorousry rejected the
charge and hurled at his accusers
the declaration that they did not
know what they were talking
about.
Allied Occupation
of Germany May Be
For Next 10 Years
Frankfurt, Nov. 27 (U.R)
Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, newly
designated commander of Amer
ican forces in Europe, predicted
today that the Allied occupation
of Germany would continue for
at least 10 years.
McNarney held his first press
conference since he was named
to succeed Gen. Dwight D. F'sen
hower as commander-in-chic: of
U. S. occupation forces in Ger
many, commanding general of U.
S. forces in Europe, and Amer
ican representative on the Allied
control council.
CIRCUIT COURT JURY
CALLED FOR DEC.
19
The circuit court jury is sched
uled to be called Wcdnevdiy,
Dec. 19, to hear evidence in n
auto accident suit, Circuit J'irltic
Herbert K. Manna reports Two
actions have been merged
No immediate session of the
grand jury is contemplated by
the district attorney's office as
no criminal matters arc now
pending.
ACCEPT SUN BOWL BID
El Paso, Tex., Nov. 27 lU.0)
DAiver university today accept
ed an invitation to play the Uni
versity of New Mexico in the
bun Cuwl iu 1 r;u ua Jaa. i.
'
k lit
HIROHITO URGES
Little Emperor Blinks in
Floodlight; Reads Imper
ial Rescript as Diet Opens
Tokyo, Nov. 27 (U.R) Em
peror Hirohito, opening the ex
traordinary session of the Japa
nese diet, today urged passage
of a law giving votes to women
and other legislation to make
Japan more democratic.
For one minute the emperor,
surrounded by American and Al
lied officers, stood blinking in
the floodlight chamber and read
an imperial rescript. He wore
his new style blue court uniform
with a single flower in his lapel.
The government legislative pro
gram, designed to cany out Gun.
Douglas MacArthur's orders for
a more democratic government,
includes a bill to triple the num
ber of Japanese permitted to
vote. For the first time, under
this bill, Japanese women would
be permitted to go to the poles.
The woman suffrage bill, assured
of passage, will be a great step
in the emancipation of Japanese
women from their socially in
ferior position.
Union Labor Law
Also on the government's pro
gram was a labor union law, the
first in Japanese history. The
proposed bill will follow Mac
Arthur's directive demanding
that the government give rights
to labor. Under existing l')38
legislation strikes are banned.
The diet will meet for 18
days, then be dissolved to make
way for the new house of ippie
sentatives soon to be ejected,
probably in January.
The proposed election reforms
would give voting rights to all
persons above 20 years, regard
less of sex. Men or women could
become candidates for office at
25. This law would, based on
the 1944 census, mean an elec
torate of 42,910,000. Eligible
voters in the 1937 election
totaled 14,479,554.
BLAST INDONESIA
Batavia, Nov. 27 (U.R)
British Thunderbolt fighters
and Mosquitoes carrying 500
pound bombs struck twice at
Indonesian strong points and
troop concentrations "today and
also attacked the Jogjakarta
radio station.
British destroyers shelled the
town of Ungaran, between Scm
arang and Ambarawa.
Hard-pressed Indian troops
were reported battling new at
tacks around Ambarawa where
extremists have been besieging
8,000 to 10,000 civilians in an
internment camp.
A-Bombs That Hit Hiroshima
Not Attached to Parachutes
By Charles B. Degges
United Press Correspondent
Washington, Nov. 27 (U.R)
The atomic bombs that blasted
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were
free-falling and were not at
tached to parachutes it was
learned today.
This information confirmed
by army atomic bomb experts,
reversed a contrary impression
created by Japanese claims that
the Hiroshima bomb was seen
floating above the city from a
parachute just before the blast.
Actually, it was revealed, the
Japs did see a parachute but it
was not carrying the bomb. In
stead, it was bearing sensitive
Instruments which recorded and
ra lio-broadcast exactly what
was going on Inside the bomb.
The crew of the bomb-dropping
li-23 was thereby kept advised
Tribune
Onited Press Full
Eight-Foot Cougar
Caught in Trap in
Butte Falls Area
Daid Thompson, U. S. Forest
Service employee at Butte Falls,
trapped a large cougar in the
mountain country behind Butte
Falls, he said today. The cat
measured about eight feet from
tip to tip and weighed over 100
pounds, according to Thompson.
Thompson said he found
where the cougar had been kill
ing deer in the area since re
cent heavy snows. The trap was
baited with a patented scent and
caught the cougar by one front
paw. A regular number four
coyote trap was used, Thompson
stated. It is unusunl to trap cou
gars since the animals will rare
ly take bait that Is not warm,
according to the forest service
man.
APPLEGATE MINER
IS REPORTED ILL
IN LONELY CABIN
Residents of the Upper Apple
gate district were making ar
rangements today to go to the
cabin of Andrew Jeldness, tour
miles west of Big Squaw lake,
and bring out the Veteran pros
pector, who is reported ill. Bert
Harr, stockman of tho district
and Hunger Lee Port of the Star
ranger stution are organizing the
party. Four miles of the way is
over a mountain trail,
A parly of Copper residents
recently made a journey to the
Jeldness cabin and found him III
and attempting to doctor him
self. He was able to get about
some. Jeldness is 85 years old
and his wife who is with him is
80. They have lived in the Blue
Ledge district for nearly 40
years. A son, Otto Jeldness,
lives on Rogue river and efforts
were made this morning to con
tact him.
Jeldness, who is well known
in this city, has mined and pros
pected in tho Upper Applogatc
hills for many years. He has
been mining in the Squaw Lake
area the past three years' where
he has a c'aim.
Ranger Port reported today he
did not believe there was any
snow in the Jeldness cabin rea,
but thought stormy weather
would be encountered.
SLIDE NEAR EUREKA
HALTS RAIL TRAFFIC
Eureka, Cal., Nov. 27 (U.R)
A landslide which covered Ap
proximately 500 feet of North
western Pacific track 35 miles
south of here probably will close
the line for 10 days, railroad en
gineers estimated today.
Until the tracks arc cleared,
passengers will be carried around
the slide area to and from
Eureka by Greyhound bus. Lcss-than-carload
freight will be han
dled between South Fork and
Eureka by Pacific Motor Truck
ing Co., a Southern Pacific sub
sidiary. until the split second of the ex
plosion. This correspondent was led to
raue the question of the bomb's
luunching because of two facts
previously made public: (1) That
the B-29 swung around and al
most completely reversed its
course after dropping the bomb
and (2) that the plane was al
most 1 1 miles away when the
detonation nine.
A free falling bomb follows
the forward course of tho
launching plane and also its ap
proximate speed. Thus, when
the plane turns around, the gap
between plane and bomb is wid
ened by both the plane's speed
and that of the falling weapon.
A parachute on a bomb, how
ever, would greatly arrest its
forward and downward speed,
and the "safety" gap wuuld be
smaller.
Leased Wlri
NO. 211.
OF
Manufacture Started More
Than Year Before War
Outbreak Shown at Trial.
Nuernberg, Nov. 27 (U.R)
Germany began manufacture of
poison gas on a mass basis more
than a year before the outbreak
of war, evidence at the war
crimes trial revealed today.
Orders to start turning out
poison gas on a massive scale
were issued by Hermann Goer
ing on July 12, 1938, the evi
dence disclosed. '
Memo In Evidence
Production was to be rtartcd
at a rato of 4.000 tons a month
and to rise to a rate of 8.000
tons a month by Oct. 1, 1940.
Tho evidence was In the form
of a memoranda on basic facts
about the German war effort
written by Gen. George Thomas,
former chief of the nazi military
economy staff.
The poison gas project was
turned over to the huge I. G.
Farben-Industrie chemical trust
to be carried out.
The notes did not explain why
Germany failed to use poison
gas during the war.
The evidence was placed be
fore the war trials court by Sid
ney Aldermun, assistant U. S.
prosecutor.
Alderman also read Into the
record a speech by Col. Gen.
Alfred Jodl made in late 1943
which revealed that Adolf Hit
ler was then refusing a growing
demand by many influential
Germans that he try to negotiate
peace with the United States,
Russia and Britain,
Defeatism Fought
Jodl was speaking to a special
meeting of Munich party leaders
in an attempt to combat the
wave of defeatism in Germany.
"Up and down the country the
devil of subversion strides," he
said. "All cowards are seeking
a way out. They say we must
negotiate while there is still
something in hand. In this war
there can only bo a fight to the
end.
"Capitulation is the end of the
nation and of Germany. Italy
suffered not only a mild defeat
but a moral defeat. She broke
down Internally."
Jodl revealed that Hitler had
hoped to attack in the west in
1039 after the end of the Polish
campaign but bad weather and
shortage of armaments delayed
the attack.
"Meantime," he said, "we
were confronted by yet another
problem which had to be settled
promptly: The occupation of
Norway and Denmark. First,
there was danger that Britain
would seize Scandinavia which
besides effecting strategic en
circlement from the north would
stop the import of iron and
nickel.
"Second, there was the reali
zation of our own maritime
necessities which made it im
perative for us to secure free
access to the Atlantic.
"The question now arose
whether or not we should carry
the war Into Britain by landing
on a grand scale. Furthermore,
in view of the possible event
uality of the U. S. A. entering
the war it was necessary to take
Into consideration the occupa
tion of a number of advanced
support points in the Atlantic,
for instance Iceland anJ the
Azores."
Jodl said the attack on Bri
tain and occupation of the
Atlantic islands was rejected be
cause the Germans lacked naval j
and air strength.
KOREA GETS NEWS
Seoul, Korea. Nov. 27 (U.R)
The first Independent wot Id
news report to reach the Korenn
press In many years was started
today under an arrangement be
tween the Korea Press associa
tion and the United Press. Our
ing and before the' war. this
country got Its foreign iws
through Doniei, Japanese news
ageut, i
UNION CHIEFTAIN
PREDICTS PEACE
ON COMPROMISE
Employes in Strike-Involved
Area Ask Resumption of
Negotiations on Wages.
Portland, Ore.. Nov. 27 U.R)
Peace was seen just around the
corner in the Pacific northwest
lumber strike today as report
flooded AFL headquarters here
of negotiation meetings reopen
ing throughout Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and northern Cal
ifornia. Strike Chairman John M.
Christenson flatly predicted the
tie-up would be history within
a week.
He said that as a result of the
settlement over the week-end of
the wage issue at 25 Tacoma
mills on a compromise 15 cents
an hour pay increase, employes
in other districts had asked for
resumption of negotiations.
Less Than Asked
The Tacoma settlement was
5 cents an hour less than the
$1.10 an hour minimum origi
nally demanded by the union.
It was accepted in the effort to
get the men back to work and
lumber rolling from the mills
again.
After relating that negotia
tions were under way at Aber
deen, Wash., where the Grays
Harbor district council met with
employers and at Portland
where the co-operage division of
the sawmill workers, represent
ing Seattle, Tacoma and Marys
villc, Wash., and Portland,
Christenson disclosed that other
calls to open negotiations had
been received from operators
throughout the strike involved
area.
To date the lumber strike has
cost workmen, on the basis of
union figures that 60,000 men
are involved, almost $3,000,000
a week in lost pay for the more
than eight weeks they have
been out, according to employer
estimates.
CIO PREPARES FOR
LONG BATTLE WITH
By United Press
The CIO United Auto Work
ers prepared for a long, bitter
picket line scigc against General
Motors, and Ford Motor Co.
workers faced lay-offs by night
fall in today's darkening labor
picture.
An ever-widening gap separat
ed General Motors and the un
ion following the company's re
fusal last night to reopen talks
over demands for a 30 per cent
wage increase, which last week
prompted 175,000 UAW workers
to leave their jobs.
Closure of Ford's giant River
Rogue plant outside Detroit and
the contemplated shutdown of a
number of subsidiary plants to
night was expected to add some
40,000 to the 517,000 already
idled by strikes across the na
tion. Parts Lacking
Ford officials emphasized that
the layoffs were necessitated by
a shortage of parts resulting
from strikes in 15 supplier
plants and in no way connected
with the General Motors strike.
A wceklong "demonstration"
walkout against Montgomery
Ward Sc Co. went into its sec
ond day, with union and mail
order officials in sharp disagree
ment over its effectiveness.
Meanwhile, 650,000 CIO Unit
ed steelworkers will ballot to
morrow on whether they wish to
strike for a $2-a-day pay boost.
The national labor relations
board has set up polling places
in 766 plants in 27 states for the
greatest strike vote in its his
tory. SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Ruth Freed curious as to
what her friends did to rate
space in this "colyum."
Olive Hull having trouble get
ting her teeth into a one-meat-ball
sandwich.
Gene Peterson phoning all
the way from Rosebtirg to have
relatives search the football
grandstand for his wrist watch
and then apologetically finding
it under the bed at home.
Newcomer Lester Downing
complaining that when he asks
regarding a house to rent or
buy "people Just look at me
luuiiy like."